Acceptance Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptance Adoption Conflicting ideas Gullibility Ideas Ideas and innovation Ifs Inspirational New ideas Philosophy of science Rejection Resistance Ruling the world Sceptic Scepticism Science Science and religion Skeptic Skeptical Skepticism
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new. You… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before. — D. J. Grothe Copy Share Image
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
“Loving someone who does not love you back hurts, alot, i know. It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at the retail store… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
Take responsibily for your past, the bad memories of poor decisions you took were your choices once, and you liked them for the moment… — Aruho Marvin Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept and appreciate things now, and we'll find more happiness in every moment we live. Happiness comes when we stop… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Accepting the challenges in life makes it interesting and overcoming them makes it eloquent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
